Comfortable spreading state propaganda. Willing to ignore hard truths. Eager to lie for their government.

John Kerry does it poorly. How he got the top diplomatic post is anyone’s guess. Maybe he bought it.

Together with his wife’s enormous wealth, his net worth way exceeds a billion dollars. The Center for Responsive Politics estimates his alone at from $184 – 288 million.

It’s hard remembering how many times he lied about Russia. On Tuesday, he did again saying Russian officials lied “to (his) face.”

He’s so habituated to lying he wouldn’t know the truth if if bit him on the rump. Anti-Russian propaganda rages. Exceeding anything during the Cold War years.

Not according to Kerry. He lied telling lawmakers “Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that I’ve seen since the very height of the Cold War.”

“And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations – lies – whatever you want to call them – about their activities there to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.”

Big Lies don’t need evidence. They have a life of their own. Repetition gets most people to believe them. Global wars start this way.

“Russia is engaged in a massive effort to sway nations, to appeal to them, reach out to them, and fundamentally, tragically, sort of reigniting a new kind of East-West zero sum game that we think is dangerous and unnecessary, frankly,” Kerry claimed.

Washington does “a pretty good job of standing up for Ukrainian sovereignty.” He urged lawmakers to authorize more support.

“We all need to be prepared to step up and be there economically for Ukraine as they reform and try to implement their dream and vision,” he said.

“It’s not good enough to have Poroshenko come here and get 40 standing ovations, and then not step up and deliver what it’s really going to take to help him create the democracy he wants to create.”

Anyone making minimal efforts to learn hard truths and stay current knows Kerry is a serial liar.

Nothing he says holds water. He long ago lost credibility. He’s a diplomatic embarrassment – shaming the office he holds.

He’s paid to lie. He fronts for wealth power and privilege. He deplores peace. He supports war.

He’s fundamentally against democratic governance at home and abroad. He’s for fascist ruthlessness replacing it.

His State Department spokeswoman moving up to White House communications director Jen Psaki repeats the same Big Lies.

It doesn’t mean they won’t keep trying. It does mean the more Big Lies they tell, the less their credibility.

One tweeter said “(b)elieving the statements made by American diplomats is a dangerous undertaking.”

In response to Pyatt turning truth on its head tweeting “(t)he separatists in eastern Ukraine at this point are a de facto extension of Russian military and an instrument of Russian national power,” responder Vyacheslav Morosov said:

“A question to you Mr. Pyatt: are you a diplomat or a worker in the ministry of propaganda, or is it the situation now in the #USA that all diplomats are propagandists?”

In February 2014, Pyatt gained notoriety with Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland for their role in orchestrating coup violence resulting in replacing Ukrainian democracy with fascist dictatorship.

Stephen Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967. He remained there until retiring at year end 1999. Writing on major world and national issues began in summer 2005. In early 2007, radio hosting followed. Lendman now hosts the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network three times weekly. Distinguished guests are featured. Listen live or archived. Major world and national issues are discussed. Lendman is a 2008 Project Censored winner and 2011 Mexican Journalists Club international journalism award recipient.

About Stephen

Stephen Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967.